Summary
Bo Blassingame is a senior technology leader with nine years of formal experience driving large-scale modernization and automation programs across financial services, now leading Marketing Engineering at Northwestern Mutual. He has a proven track record at USAA of scaling engineering capacity 4x, migrating monoliths to API- and event-driven microservices, and reducing manual risk through automated dispute and benefits processing. Bo blends hands-on software craft—having led middleware, vendor integrations, and cloud-balanced architectures—with strategic product and stakeholder leadership to deliver measurable business outcomes. He builds and runs cross-functional, SAFe-aligned delivery programs that handle mission-critical member-facing portals and backend processing at scale. Known for turning complex regulatory and vendor-driven requirements into auditable, efficient systems, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with an emphasis on culture and innovation. Based in Georgia, he leverages an Electronics Engineering Technology background to bridge hardware-minded rigor with modern software architecture.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electronics Engineering Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electronics Engineering Technology at Texas A&M University
English